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A comment on Amazon’s Power Reviewers. Parent comment

Re:Amazon’s Power Reviewers by scarejunba on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:22PM (#19008914)
Because if you apply deep learning neural networks to blockchain AI technology you could get zero trust product reviews.
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Re:Amazon’s Power Reviewers by kevindong on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:03PM (#19009141)
Reviews on Amazon are already linked to a user. Once you find the user's profile, you can see all of their reviews. Blockchain brings nothing to the table in regards to detecting bad reviews. Amazon at least affirmatively indicates whether or not a user has purchased a certain product.

Furthermore, there are already (non-blockchain) tools to adjust a product's reviews to account for bad actors: https://www.fakespot.com/

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Re:Amazon’s Power Reviewers by creato on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:19PM (#19009212)
I'm pretty sure he was joking...
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